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The longitudinal arch is determined by the bones, the joints, the muscles and the ligaments. Weakness in any or all of these structures may cause a flattening of the arch with or without pain.

Foot strain can develop in those who stand all day. This can be related to obesity, when the feet have to carry extra weight or to weakness of the foot.

Walking seems to develop the strength of the muscles and ligaments and doesn’t so readily lead to painful conditions. Arch supports and exercises can be of great benefit. So can losing weight.

Pain felt in the heel on walking may be due to plantar fasciitis. There is a sheet of fascia or connective tissue which runs the length of the sole and is attached to the ball of the foot at the front and to the calcaneum or heel bone at the back.

Inflammation, or even a tear, may develop where it attaches to the heel bone and may cause bone to grow out into the fascia, leading to a spur of bone projecting forward and being seen on X-ray.

The calcanean spur was once thought to be the cause of the problem and was often removed by operation. We now know it is result rather than cause.

This condition is treated by rest, by wearing a pad in the shoe to cushion the heel or by using anti-inflammatory drugs. An injection of a cortisone derivative directly into the tender area works well.

Look after your feet. If they do start to cause trouble, seek professional help early so as to minimise the problem.

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For those women who suffer attacks following infrequent intercourse, a dose of antibiotics at the time might relieve distress.

You can quickly relieve any uncomfortable symptoms by drinking plenty of water, by making up barley water or by obtaining potassium citrate in its various forms from the chemist. But you should still see your doctor and take antibiotics in the correct dose for the correct length of time to get rid of any infection.

Many women who suffer from frequency and irritation will not show evidence of infection in the bladder and, therefore, cannot be said to suffer from cystitis, although the symptoms are the same. Many of these women have been labelled as neurotic and tranquillisers prescribed.

Examination of the urethra and bladder may reveal the true diagnosis or it may rest on the history alone. They suffer from what is more correctly called the urethral syndrome.

Symptoms may be precipitated by intercourse.

This condition often responds to dilatation or stretching of the urethra — a simple procedure which can be easily done in the doctor’s rooms.

Certainly you do not have to put up with repeated discomfort, as proper treatment is available.

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Clinical trials are important to you in two ways. Firstly, results from them are used by doctors to determine which treatment is ‘best’. Secondly, you may be asked to take part in them. One of the worst aspects of clinical trials for you—the person with cancer—is that if you agree to take part in them you don’t get to decide on your own treatment (and nor, incidentally, does your doctor, because the treatment is decided by chance). You would be asked to agree to be randomised and then to have whichever treatment you are allotted by chance. Taking part in this type of clinical trial is of no benefit to you personally—you would be better off choosing the treatment you preferred (which may of course be one of the treatments being tested). It is also of little benefit to future patients because such small differences between treatments are being looked for. If people with cancer were given the choice between treatments, they would place more importance on things like convenience, side effects, comfort and time in hospital than on whether or not one or the other is likely to produce a few extra weeks or months of life. Differences in results that are big enough to be important and worthwhile for people with cancer don’t need randomised clinical trials and statistics to prove them.

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Are G.I. factors tested on healthy people valid for use in people with diabetes?

Yes, there are several studies which show a good correlation between values for the same foods obtained in healthy people and people with diabetes (type 1 and type 2). This is no surprise because the degree of glucose intolerance is allowed for in the calculation of G.I. factors.

Do low G.I. foods need to be eaten at every meal in order for people to see a benefit?

No, because the effect of a low G.I. food carries over to the next meal, reducing its glycaemic impact. This applies even when the low G.I. meal is eaten for dinner. Its effect carries over to breakfast the following morning. But, it is sensible to try to eat at least two low G.I. meals each day.

One study gave carrots a G.I. factor of 95. Does this mean that a person with diabetes shouldn’t eat carrots?

The quantity of carrots that gives the 50 grams of carbohydrate portion (as required in standardised G.I. factor testing) is enormous because it contains only about 7 per cent carbohydrate. In fact, about 700 grams of carrots were tested. This is much greater than the amount you would normally eat (about 100 grams).

Even with a G.I. factor of 95, a normal serve of carrots would contribute only a small amount to the rise in blood sugar. Carrots and other foods like tomatoes, onions and salad vegetables that contain only a small amount of carbohydrate should be seen as ‘free’ foods for people with diabetes.

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Degree of obesity. There are a number of physiological factors—e.g. the ability to oxidise fat in response to exercise, and different muscle fibre types12—which distinguish the obese from the merely overfat, or the lean. These are also known to affect the fat loss response to exercise. Due to physiological factors that have either caused or resulted from obesity and which are as yet largely unknown, those prone to weight gain may have a greater craving for fatty foods after exercise and may store fat more readily than those not disposed to overfatness.

Exercise responses can also be quite different. Because of the lower levels of aerobic capacity and different rates of substrate utilisation in the more obese, long duration activity and increased ‘incidental’ exercise at a much lower intensity than is used for the leaner and more fit is recommended for optimal fat burning. There is a case for regarding the morbidly obese as a different population to normal and overfat people in their responses to exercise. The physiological changes that occur with this type of obesity are most likely to be genetically based or associated with long term obesity, and this may provide dues as to the type of exercise and dietary prescription required for optimal fat losses in the future.

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The location of fat on an individual’s body is partly due to genetic influences, but is also idiosyncratic. Some people store fat on the upper body, some on the lower body; some get fat around the neck first, some around the arms and chest. In general, men store fat around the waist or abdomen, and pre-menopausal women store fat around the hips and buttocks. These are the typical android (apple) and gynoid (pear) shapes that distinguish men and women. A third, generally ‘big all over’ shape, is the ovoid (fruit box) form of overfatness. This is often more characteristic of those with a genetic predisposition to obesity.

An analysis of national figures in the United Kingdom shows that while the ‘apple’ and ‘pear’ are the majority shapes of males and females respectively, around 14 per cent of men may be fat and pear-shaped and 27 per cent of women fat and apple-shaped. This is perhaps not unexpected with women because at menopause they lose the benefits of the female hormones, particularly oestrogen, which maintain female fat in the lower body (hips, thighs and buttocks) for reproductive purposes, and they begin to store more fat on the upper body, like men. Increases in abdominal fat in men and women differ with age. Women, in general, tend to store more fat around the lower regions until they reach menopause. Then they put it on like men. Men, on the other hand, generally increase their abdominal stores linearly with age from around 25 years on.

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A German doctor has discovered that in certain countries, where pumpkin seeds are eaten regularly and in great quantity, there is virtually no incidence of enlarged prostate or other prostate troubles. Dr. W. Devrient states that enlargement of the prostate gland indicates that the gland is trying to make up for the diminished production of the male sex hormones as a result of advanced age. Pumpkin seeds contain nutrients which are essential for reproductive functions.

Pumpkin seeds are extremely rich in powerful nutritive factors: about 30 percent protein, 40 percent unsaturated fatty acids, plenty of B-vitamins, lots of phosphorus, iron, and zinc. What is the powerful substance in pumpkin seed that has such a rejuvenating effect on sex life? No one seems to know. Dr. Bela Pater, of Klausenburg, believes that pumpkin seeds contain a “plant hormone which affects man’s hormone production in part by substitution, in part by direct proliferation.” But whatever substance it is, the fact remains that, as of today, pumpkin seeds are the only effective nutritional remedy for prostate trouble—and completely harmless, too.

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What causes the galea to become thick? Why do men become bald but not women?

Dr. Engstrand stated that the thickening of the tendinous scalp membrane is effected by the male sex hormones. He indicated several other possible causes for this condition, but the main cause is hormone stimulation. Men with a generous sex hormone production have a greater chance of losing their hair. This explains the typical male pattern of baldness: bald head but otherwise vigorous secondary male sex characteristics—thick, fast-growing beard and abundant hail’ growth on the other parts of the body.

A hereditary tendency is also indicated. Not only is there a great variety in the quantity of sex hormones produced by different men, but even the amount of blood which each individual, anatomically speaking, has available for his scalp, varies considerably from man to man and is hereditary to some extent. Also, Dr. Engstrand stressed the fact that hormone production and stimulation can vary to a great extent during different periods and various ages of the same individual. In addition, excessive hair loss can be influenced by such factors as nutritional deficiencies and prolonged mental or emotional stress. Mental stress causes tensions in the muscle tissues of the scalp and the neck and thus constricts the blood vessels.

How Dr. Engstrand’s theory was proven

Dr. Engstrand developed a special surgical method which he calls The Radical Scalp Operation According to Engstrand. The operation is aimed at relieving the pressure in the scalp by making several incisions in the galea. It is a simple operation without hospitalization which takes about 50 minutes to perform. Dr. Engstrand has performed over 1,000 such operations and reports quite remarkable results. In the most favorable group of patients, between 70 and 80 percent experienced increased hair growth within six months to a year. Even in completely bald areas—in the recessed temples and at the crown of the head—his method has brought new hair growth in 40 to 50 percent of the patients, provided that the baldness was of a shorter duration than five years.

Thus, Dr. Engstrand has definitely proven that loss of hair and baldness is indeed caused by impaired blood circulation. Whether or not the surgical approach is the right and most effective way to increase blood distribution to the hair follicles remains to be seen. In accord with the spirit of this book, which is basically a self-help book, I am inclined to think that there are easier ways than operations to stimulate the increased blood flow to the hair roots. I am referring to the nutritional approach. And in this regard I have very exciting news for you.

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Stomach and intestines have their iris positions in the first major zone, directly around the pupil. In contrast to the other organs they are concentrically arranged, and take in a third of the iris.

When looking at an iris, attention is first directed to the stomach and intestinal zones. In health the stomach and intestinal zones are of equal size. They take in a third of the iris and do not differ in essential colour and structure from each other. This normal form of the first major zone is very seldom found in these days.

Disturbances of the intestines are recognised in the course and colour of the iris-wreath.

1. Dilatations of the iris-wreath are often seen. If roundish, they suggest an intestinal atony, and these usually stem from incompletely cleared catarrhs of childhood. Dark spots in the dilatations are indications that the intestinal glands are no longer functioning. Patients with these signs had many colicky pains as children, with a history of always wanting to drink cold water ( = intestinal scrofula).

If the signs are more honeycomb-like, then one speaks of’ ‘wormnests’. That is to say, that the patients have suffered from worms. If worms are suspected, then other signs are searched for: undue activity of the pupils, dark rings under the eyes, signs of worms on the tongue, in the nose, and itching of the anus, etc.

Pointed white spokes of the iris-wreath which take in the second large zone are signs of intestinal colic.

2. A white iris-wreath is an indication for inflammation of the intestines. This inflammation often extends over into the lymph channels, to the fifth minor zone (mucous membrane zone). One can then observe thick radiating white lines from the wreath to the fifth minor zone, in which white clouds or flakes also appear.

3. A contraction of the iris-wreath arises because of pressure from the outside, and can be caused by organ displacement (e.g. floating kidney, enlarged liver) or by a tumour. A downward depression of the wreath is a sign of ptosis of stomach or intestines.

4. An expansion of the large intestine field in the direction of the heart area (left iris 10′-15′, right iris 45′-50′) enables one to diagnose ‘Roemheld’.

5. Tumour and cancer signs.

6. All iris signs which originate from the pupil and traverse the iris-wreath indicate a participation of the central nervous system in the disturbed condition.

7. If in the left iris one finds an iris-wreath with a pointed serrated margin, a sign of weakness in the heart area, and an adrenal sign, then a vegetative dystony is indicated. The patient is full of inner disturbances, with troubles here and there, without it being possible to define a clinical condition.

8. A square-shaped wreath always indicates a grave and incurable condition. Pancreas signs are always then to be found.

9. The appendix area lies in the right iris—from 33′-35′, directly at the wreath. In inflammatory states there shows a white sign = acute condition, or a yellow sign = chronic condition. One often observes in this area signs of adhesions, which go out from the intestine and reach to the peritoneum. They arise after chronic inflammations, as well as after badly healed appendicectomies, and can produce considerable disturbance.

A black spike in the caecal area signifies that the caecum has become functionally incapable and shrivelled. Black or dark lines which go over or under in an arc, indicate displacement of the caecum. Very often it becomes adherent to the gall-bladder, peritoneum, ovary, Fallopian tube, etc.

10.Strong dilatations of the intestinal zone from 25′-30′ in the left iris and from 30-35′ in the right iris, enable one to recognise the tendency to hernia. The iris-wreath is broken through at the point where the rupture ensues. If pain also appears, then white clouds in this area will point to an inflammatory state.

Small lacunae inside the iris-wreath indicate a disturbance in the gastro-intestinal secretions, arising from atony of the stomach and intestine musculature.

11.Special attention should be directed to the S. Romanum (Sigmoid flexure) and to the rectum. In many cases, the area for rectum, left iris 32-34′, shows a white discharge-sign, as an indication of mucous membrane catarrh. Often, the iris fibres in this area separate from one another, and indicate a sign of commencing weakness ( = atonic constipation).

Signs for haemorrhoids are seen in this area in the form of small dark spots. Apart from this, one not infrequently observes a very dark brown neurasthenic ring, and indications of stasis in the liver area, as symptoms of a portal congestion. With haemorrhoids, one usually finds very wrinkled eyelids. Interrogation reveals that these patients must often rub their eyes because they feel as if there were sand in them. A later indication of haemorrhoids is the presence of 2 red fleck in the lower eyelid. The more this fleck lies temporalwards, then the more analwards lie the haemorrhoids. The more it lies nasalwards, then the higher they lie.

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Some women find that the first period they have after their baby is born brings a problem they had never imagined. If you’re breast-feeding, your periods probably won’t start again until you have weaned the baby which could be anything from six weeks to a year after the birth, depending on how long you both decide to continue. But some women find that even though they are breast-feeding successfully, their periods start again. And although most babies don’t seem to notice what’s going on, others react quite strongly. As Sylvia Close puts it in her helpful book The Know-how of Infant Feeding, the baby seems to go on strike. He won’t suck; he grizzles; he’s fretful and difficult. This could be because our skins smell different at period time, or because the baby can smell our blood. Either way it’s likely to be very upsetting for a mother to be rejected like this by her baby.

But don’t worry. You can deal with it if you know how. For a start be as relaxed about the whole business as possible. Don’t give your baby a bottle and don’t try to force him to feed. Wait until he is hungry and then try again. But this time see if you can take a warm scented bath or a shower beforehand. Often this is all that’s needed. Once you smell like yourself again, the baby is happy. But I should warn you that it does sometimes take several efforts before you are back together again as you were before. If you’re bottle feeding, you are far more likely to start having periods again soon after the birth — which seems to me another very good reason to try to

breast-feed.

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